On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Dino Darling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It saddens me to report that a single point failure cause the new KFI > tower to fall this afternoon around 2:00PM. > Really hate to hear that Dino. Any tower that goes down like that really gets to me lately. About 2 or 3 months ago our Channel 7 TV tower in Redfield, AR collapsed nearly straight down. I remember when it was completed in 1965. At that time, it was the second tallest man made structure in the world at around 2000 feet from ground up. http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0108/487277.html They were replacing guy lines, and some other maintenance when part of the crew let too much slack in one of the guys. It began to bow out somewhere near the 200 foot level due to that, and the stress of tons of weight overhead took her down after 43 years. 73 Brian wa5am -- "Money is only temporary, radios are forever" - Jim Little aka "the old dawg"/K5BAI ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
